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'Cause we gotta do this at least like once a year.

[Poll #1484034]

Whatever's decided goes into practice next Saturday, Nov 14th.

Comments

[ayeayes.livejournal.com]

Look, everyone is gonna have some secrets that annoy them. Some people are just sick of certain fandoms that everyone's obsessing over, or that picture of Misha with the yogurt, or the "I judge you"s, "I left fandom and now I have a life", whatever. So what? Not everyone is going to find every secret interesting, but there's plenty of room for all of them!

Keep them!

Replying to myself to add a few things

[ayeayes.livejournal.com]

Also, I see the "Not unless..." option is winning. Sounds like an ok, idea, but here's my concern.
Say someone posts a secret with a pretty strange and unusual pairing, and the text says something like "I ship it, S!B; Well, just LOOK at them! How exactly would I explain THAT to my friends?" It gets in, because it's more than just "I ship it". Scroll down to the comments, and there are tons of comments along the lines of "WTF? I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU'D BAN THESE!!! THAT REASON ISN'T GOOD, WHY DID YOU INCLUDE THIS?!?!?!???"
See, I think what qualifies as a "reason" is more subjective than we think.

Also, how about some secrets that basically revolve around a pairing or a character/celebrity crush, but don't actually include the words "hit" or "ship"? Such as, say "I understand how controversial and hated this pairing is, and most of my friends bash it, but I actually enjoy it, and often read fics and look at fanart involving it", or "I know this character creeps a lot of people out, but I actually am quite attracted to him, and yes, I do have sexual thoughts involving him".
Loopholes?

[(Anonymous)]

This is a SECRETS community. If someone feels that their ship is a secret or they don't want to admit it, then it's a SECRET therefore it can go on a SECRETS community.

[panopticam.livejournal.com]

weighing in late in the game, this has probably been said by somebody, but I'm disappointed by the majority opposed to I ship it / I'd hit it

1) why should the secrets' authors have to defend themselves? some people are not comfortable revealing certain things. they don't owe anybody an explanation for that. why we the audience have to be in the business of qualifying their shame, judging validity or sincerity of their confessions, surmising quality of their friends, I am not sure.

2) I know there's no fandomsecrets mission statement, but I've always assumed (wrongly?) that the main reason for this comm is so secret posters can get their secrets off their chests. sure, the rest of us get to watch, but our entertainment isn't owed first priority. secrets shouldn't be required to be "interesting," only true. to the people complaining about how it's boring, I don't care about it, too many - scroll southward. anon isn't putting on this show for you.

[mekkio.livejournal.com]

why should the secrets' authors have to defend themselves? some people are not comfortable revealing certain things.

Dude, they're anon secrets. You should be able to say anything because no one knows who is actually posting them. Or else what's the point of telling a secret?

[toadclubber.livejournal.com]

i vote banning them both. they're so annoying.

[thememusicc.livejournal.com]

kill all nerds

[xbenji65.livejournal.com]

lol

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think either really need to be left out however I agree that simply stating you'd ship/hit something without a reason for why it's a secret makes it hard to see why it would be considered a secret. Hating a comm on the other hand is totally valid for posting imo.

Anyway, those kind of secrets don't really bother me so I voted they should be left. There doesn't really seem to be too many of the simple "I'd hit that" kind of secrets these days anyway.